SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Worst-case scenario’s closing fast: Occupy Wall Street growing. But no political power or allies yet. Feared yes, attacked by GOP proxy tea party. Soon the Occupation will explode into a new American Revolution.

When? A string of European bank collapses is dead ahead. And like the Arab Spring, they will trigger an economic disaster for American banks.

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Andrew Milligan, head of Global Strategy at Standard Life Investments, discusses the implications for banks as European officials try to hammer out a solution to the sovereign debt crisis.

Yes, coming soon says Martin Weiss in his “7 Major Advance Warnings,” which is “bound to have a life-changing impact on nearly all investors in the U.S. and around the globe.” His new Weiss R…

Gilbert Wong, the mayor of Cupertino, California, calls his city council to order. "As you know, Cupertino is very famous for Apple Computer, and we're very honored to have Mr. Steve Jobs come here tonight to give a special presentation," the mayor says.

"Mr. Jobs?"

And there he is, in his black turtleneck and jeans, shuffling to the podium to the kind of uproarious applause absent from most city council meetings. It is a shock to see him here on ground level, a thin man amid other citizens, rather than on stage at San Francisco's Mo…

OFFICIALS of the Department of Agriculture (DA) said the Island Garden City of Samal (Igacos) ban on mangoes is a sanitary strategy and should also be done by different cities and provinces in Davao Region.

"Other provinces should replicate what Samal did, to avoid the spread of any disease in mangoes and other fruit trees like the bananas," said Dr. Oscar O. Parawan, DA Davao Region Director.Romulo S. Palcon, assistant director for Research and Development and Regulatory Services of DA-Davao Region, said Igacos did the correct thing in banning the entry of mangoes.

"Sanitary strategy nila yan, those are the measures they have to do," Palcon said during Friday's Economic briefing at Apo View Hotel.

He said quarantine services department also have the same function and is doing the same thing.

With the spread of the Fusarium wilt or Panama disease in bananas, it is a tell-ta…